Aaron Schrank
Health and Housing Reporter at LAist
Health & Housing Reporter at @LAist [email protected]. Previously: @kcrw, @neonhummedia, @Marketplace, @TPRNews, @WYPublicRadio
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1 week ago |
laist.com | Aaron Schrank
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has issued layoff notices to 11 of its more than 700 employees due to budget deficits in the current fiscal year, the agency has confirmed. LAHSA’s human resources department sent an organization-wide email last week asking all employees to consider voluntary separation to minimize involuntary layoffs. The affected positions will be eliminated June 30 if insufficient volunteers come forward before June 5, according to the email.
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2 weeks ago |
laist.com | Aaron Schrank
Why it matters: The report approved by fire commissioners Tuesday reveals just how intertwined the department's work has become with the city's homelessness crisis. Findings: Unhoused people were involved in 33% of the total fires the LAFD responded to between 2018 and 2024, according to department data. Over the same period, unhoused patients accounted for 12% of all ambulance calls. Last year, calls for service involving the unhoused community represented 13% of the LAFD's total call volume.
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2 weeks ago |
laist.com | Aaron Schrank
Dozens of healthcare providers contracted to do HIV prevention work in L.A. County are urging state lawmakers to step in and cover millions in anticipated federal cuts to their life-saving programs. L.A. County’s Department of Public Health sent notice to 39 organizations that their contracts to provide STD and HIV prevention services will be terminated on May 31 because they depend on more than $19 million in CDC grant funding that the Trump administration has signaled it is likely to eliminate.
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3 weeks ago |
laist.com | Aaron Schrank
The Los Angeles area’s largest homeless services system is using a new, real-time digital database to track shelter bed availability in an effort to reduce wait times for thousands of unhoused residents. Starting July 1, the tool will be used to automatically match unsheltered people with beds, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
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1 month ago |
laist.com | Aaron Schrank
With the world still digesting the news that an American had been elected as pope for the first time, Angelenos expressed their shock and excitement at a special Mass held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels downtown. Soon after white smoke rose from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to signal that a new pope has been chosen, U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago emerged as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, choosing the name Pope Leo XIV.
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The Eaton Fire forced evacuations of hundreds of vulnerable residents from dozens of nursing homes in Pasadena. Many were initially dropped at the city's public evacuation shelter, which was not prepared to care for them. My story for @LAist today https://t.co/JlkFKifyS7